Leech JarGlencoe Folk Museum Leeches were stored in this jar in a pharmacy before being sold to physicians. These parasitic worms were used for bloodletting, once a popular therapy believed to cure a range of conditions. The practice of bloodletting relied on...
Paraffin LampUllapool Museum In the 1840s, coal was distilled to make kerosene, known as paraffin, as a substitute for whale oil for lighting. Later made from petroleum, paraffin was commonly used during the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of these lamps...
Gas Mask for a BabyUllapool Museum In 1938, the British government handed out gas masks for everyone in the event that the Germans dropped poison gas bombs on Britain. These were carried by people throughout the day. This gas mask was designed to hold a baby. The...
Egg Preserver Gairloch Museum This ordinary galvanised bucket had an important culinary use. With a wire basket and tongs, it was actually used for ‘water glassing’ eggs. Eggs would be submerged in a pickling lime solution. This solution is made by heating limestone...
Light from a Bicycle Seaboard Centre Simple objects like this help us to understand how people of the past would have lived. Bicycle travel was common and this light belonged to Robert Ross who lived in the village of Balintore, on the Easter Ross Peninsula. He...
